the Crime of George McGovern

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Monday September 12, 2011 · 7:51 AM PDT

2011/09/12 · 07:51

Tonight, there’s going to be a Republican presidential debate. It’s the middle of September of the previous year, and there’s been something like six of these things already. People tune out, are bored, and generally become more cynical as somehow presidential politics becomes more and more a kabuki dance nobody really cares about and is becoming more and more poisonous. I blame George McGovern. After all, it was his idea.

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9/11:A note on the passage of time

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Sunday September 11, 2011 · 8:50 AM PDT

2011/09/11 · 08:50

A note on the passage of time

There’s been some bitching here about all the hoopla about the 9/11 anniversary. People have been doing that since the first one back in ’02. It seems that one of the things these people don’t understand is the passage of time….

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Wednesday August 31, 2011 · 4:26 PM PDT

2011/08/31 · 16:26

The utterly hypocritical “UN conference on Racism” is going to be in New York city on the 21st of this month (It’s September in much of the world, deal with it), and unlike the travesties in Durban, South Africa ten years ago and Geneva (Mamoodie Amedenajad advocated the extermination of Israel on Hitler’s Birthday, remember?) in 2007, it’s actually rather easy for us here on the east coast of the US to attend. How about it?

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Saturday August 27, 2011 · 7:38 AM PDT

2011/08/27 · 07:38

With Hurricane Irene dominating the news as it is, those of us here in Manhattan are getting ready. There was only one coffee shop opened this and while I was reading this morning’s Daily News, I started wondering when the last direct hit here was.

Now I remember when I was a little kid, my grandmother talking about a hurricane beginning with “D” in the early ‘60s, and I remember all the hype surrounding Hurricane Belle in 1976, But I’m not sure if “D’s”, which Wikipedia identifies as Donna, eye hit New York city, but the edges did, and since then the city has been clipped several times, most notably by Hurricane Floyd in 1999. The last tropical storm to hit was Barry in 2007. I remember that one rather well.
But getting back to direct hits by the eye of a hurricane. When was the last one?

According to Wikipedia, it was 1821. EIGHTEEN TWENTY ONE! Apparently, the eye’s not going to hit us this time, but it’s going to be close enough to get nearly the full force of the monster to slam us. Stay safe.

An unexpected blow for science...

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Friday July 29, 2011 · 6:24 AM PDT

2011/07/29 · 06:24

Every now and then, you see something that makes your jaw drop. While watching the chatter on MSNBC, I noticed a commercial for Pringle's® faux potato chips. I'm not a big fan of them by any means, but the ad agency which produced the 30 second spot inadvertently (or deliberately), bitchslapped the entire UFO/Alien conspiracy theorist community really hard....

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Monday June 27, 2011 · 10:32 AM PDT

2011/06/27 · 10:32

The Arab Spring has been a time of hope, joy and tragedy. If what Y-net says is true, then the International Criminal Court and the UN are going to turn it into a time of just plain tragedy.

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Saturday June 18, 2011 · 6:59 AM PDT

2011/06/18 · 06:59

This is not about current events. I'm pretty sure that when someone mentions the former president here, most would think it a metaphor for something relating to the current unemployment situation.

Not this time.

The Hoover institution at Stanford University is coming out with a huge tome former President Hoover finished half a century ago and never before published because it seems that he hated FDR so much he was a Nazi sympathizer....

more below the fold.

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Tuesday June 14, 2011 · 7:14 AM PDT

2011/06/14 · 07:14

UNESCO is meeting this week in Paris to designate properties World Heritage Sites. Do Colombian and Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffees deserve to be thus honored

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Breaking: Turkey invades Syria?

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Saturday June 11, 2011 · 11:55 AM PDT

2011/06/11 · 11:55

This isn't much of a diary, but more of a bulletin. I'm not sure of the veracity of the source, but the report at this link here says that Turkey has invaded Syria in order to stop what appears to be the start of a civil war near the border.

Should this be true, then there's a genuine possibility of a second international war between a member of NATO and an Arab country as an outgrowth of the so-called Arab spring, and the first "full scale invasion" by one. Unlike, say, Bahrain, where foreign invasion was invited by the government, this may be the start of something very, very big.

Sorry, but it's too early and tentative to have an expanded analysis and thus there's nothing below the fold.

Notes on the Newark Piece Summit

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Monday May 16, 2011 · 7:38 AM PDT

2011/05/16 · 07:38

No folks that is not a misspelling. The Dalai Lama, two other winners of the Nobel peace prize, the mayor of Newark, and a bunch of well-meaning do-gooders got together to discuss the advocacy of peace. But first they had to define what it is:

That was why this was a total failure. More below the fold....

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Sunday May 08, 2011 · 12:29 PM PDT

2011/05/08 · 12:29

It would be funny if it weren’t so serious. Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, the Iranian President’s chief of staff has been arrested for Sorcery. I’ve heard of witch-hunts before, but not REAL ones, in THIS century, at least this high up in the chain of command.
Now the question is: is the office of the Supreme Leader (who as we all know ISN’T the President), kidding about this? Are they just using this as a joking ruse, saying “ hey, we’ve got to arrest the sonofabitch for SOMETHING!” or are do they actually think that Amedenajad and Mashaiei are REALLY summoning up REAL djinns?

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Wednesday April 13, 2011 · 4:30 AM PDT

2011/04/13 · 04:30

For a short time between November and February, the Gaddafi regime allowed American tourist entry into Libya. I was one of those lucky few to get there.....

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